pyramid piano
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piano that has its strings slanting upward from left to right in a case that is shaped like a tall isosceles triangle.
Example Sentences
- "The return of the pyramid piano dates from 1804 from the workshops of Wachtl and Bleyer, in Vienna. ."
- "His known pieces include a pyramid piano in Vienna in the “Sammlung alter Musikinstrument", two grand pianos and this giraffe piano; they were all made in Bohemia."
- "Upstairs there was a pyramid piano — an instrument of peculiar shape and height, like a concert piano turned up against the wall."